I could speak forever about Barack Obama’s historic speech last night. However, to do my job, I must focus on the matter at hand – energy. We will have the next 67 days to discuss politics. At one point, midway through Sen. Obama’s speech, he said this: And I’ll invest $150 billion over the next [...]
No sooner did the Obama specticle finish with a great speech last night (I will comment on that later in the day) than wily coyote John McCain picks Alaska govenor Sarah Palin for his Vice President. Considering that my mission of the Armchair Energist is to discuss energy and politics, this will produce A LOT [...]
T. Boone Pickens is all over TV. Commercial spots, interviews on all the cable channels, countless comments on the ‘Net. His ‘Pickens Plan’ is to replace natural gas as a power plant fuel with wind and solar sources. The natural gas not used could be used as a source of energy for cars that run [...]
It has been a very lonnnng eighteen months. For the first time in American history, we have a nominee for president from a national party. Barack Obama is that person. While a little less than half of the delegates wanted the ‘Hillary’ model to drive back to Washington, the will of the people chose the [...]
Happy Tuesday morning to you…it was nice to be back in my own bed last night. I figured I’d start my week a day late with some positive news. No, not Joe Biden, Michelle Obama or the Kennedy Camelot party last night. No, not John McCain hinting that Jay Leno may be his #2 man [...]
Sorry everyone…I have been on the road for a couple of days – delivering my eldest to her college in West Virginia. It’s not a bad ride – a mere 1,200 mile roundtrip of easy Interstate. It’s ironic that I just received ‘Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run’ by Alton Brown as a gift from [...]
I first became a Raider fan in 1970 when I first saw Daryle Lamonica play. #3 was called ‘The Mad Bomber’ and I loved the way that Lamonica aired out the football to the ‘stickum-handed’ Fred Biletnikoff. As any football fan knows, without a solid front line, a quarterback has no time to make great [...]
New Jersey has been home to some pretty bright and colorful famous people – Thomas Edison, Meryl Streep, Yogi Berra, Frank Sinatra and Norman Schwarzkopf, to name a few. Then, there’s River Vale’s Bill Maher. Is he one of the lucky 34%? You decide. CNN’s King Plays Along WIth Maher’s Americans Are Too Dumb Scenario [...]
TAE usually focuses on gas prices, because as we all know, the squeaky wheel gets the grease – for now. My hunches are based on my perception…when something that flares up domestically or around the world, I ask myself ‘what will the residual effect be?’
Another ‘perception’ watch to add to the Russia – Georgia conflict for oil markets: Hurricane Fay I don’t want to be a pessimist, but the way the 24hr news channels are hyping Fay’s approach on Florida, I am expecting a cable station running a live remote interview with a sheppard named ‘Noah’ and his passion [...]
